Unfair Treatment Of Rashad In The Book 'All American Boys'

This is a story of baseball and how it is a team sport. The book relates with the title by showing how this boy named Sandy Comstock that plays on the Grantville Raiders and has a big game coming up. It was against the Newtown Raptors. He wanted to beat them and become one of the best teams. By the time he knew it he ended up on the Newtown Raptors team and he was going to play is old team. It was kind of like a baseball turnaround.

In this book a boy named Haroon and a boy named Jay get a point of view. Jay is white, kind of a jock, and on the football team. Haroon is brown, smart and on the Reach for the Top team(which is like a team that answers trivia and competes with other schools). It all starts off when the school goes on a lockdown where police are rushing in the school with dogs and bombarding the hallways. Jay and his friends Kevin and Steve go on the rooftop of the school thinking it is just a regular drill, but then they look down and see a bunch of police cars and they see police that look like swat teams. They see down that the police has taken 2 brown kids with handcuffs. When they go back down the principal makes an announcement telling all students to leave the building immediately.

I definitely enjoyed reading this book. I kept turning the pages of Jesse by Gary Soto. This book tells the story of a boy who drops out of high school during his senior year, and joins his brother at City College. The brothers meet new people, try to earn more money to add to the little they have, and get through the tough times of Richard Nixon and the Vietnam War. This book was very enjoyable to read because of the first person writing style and because Jesse, the main character, has a very different lifestyle than mine. The first person writing style helped me get a direct point of view from the main character. I also thought it was very different and fascinating to read about a different heritage (Mexican), and life, such as going to

This book is about a teenage boy named Kamran who is the star on the football team and is very smart. His brother Darius is in the military and Kamran wants to join the military like his brother. One day, Darius is blamed for a terrorist attack on the U.S. Kamran’s life is completely flipped upside down and the people he thought were his friends have now turned on him and his family. Kamran has to find ways

The book I choose to read is: “Mexican White boy” by Matt De La Pena. Matt was awarded the ALA-YALSA top ten best book for young adults a distinguishable book according to Global Society and Junior Library Guild Selection. Matt’s first novel was “Ball Don’t Lie” also a ALA-YALSA best book for young adults and quick pick for young adults, and was also made into a major motion picture. Matt went to college at the University of the Pacific where he played basketball on a scholarship and San Diego State University where he earned a Master of Fine Arts in creative Writing. Matt lives in Brooklyn, New York, and teaches creative writing. Matt is also completing a third novel called “We Were Here”, and a fourth novel “I will Save You”. “Mexican White Boy” has earned several recognition awards as a top ten best books for young adults. “Mexican White Boy” was published in New York 2008 by Random House Inc., but was originally published in hardcover by Delacorte Press also in 2008. The Genre of the Book is family life. The intended audience in the book is young teenage adults; however parents

All American Boys is a book about two kids named Rashad and Quinn. Rashad Butler is a black teen who is part of ROTC or JROTC ( Junior Reserve Training Corps). Quinn is a white teen who plays basketball, and seems to have a normal life. They both go to Springfield Central, but they don’t exactly know each other. One Friday night, Rashad was buying chips at Jerry’s corner shop, while squatting to grab his phone out of his duffel bag, a lady tripped over Rashad. The chips in Rashad’s hands flew out of his hands, and a nearby cop assumed he stole the chips because Rashad is black. Rashad was then beaten up by the police officer, and that’s what Quinn witnessed. Rashad was sent to the hospital in police custody for stealing and

The coming of age novel is about a boy name Theodore Decker that goes by Theo. Beginning the novel, Theo and his mother visit a museum that is targeted by a terrorist attack. Theo takes a painting his mother admires on an impulse. Theo takes the painting wherever he goes, keeping the secret that he’s hiding a multi-million-dollar painting. Donna Tartt takes a different perspective on the setting in the book. Instead of being the light filled, energized state that New York is known to be. She describes the other side of the city which is quiet neighborhoods filled which little shops, and restaurants that don’t have many customers. Giving a different perspective on the state instead of following along with the stereotype. The book also, informs youth on the dangers of drugs. Theo is heavily involved in drugs through his childhood and adulthood. Relying on drugs to get through his days, most of Theo’s bad decisions are done while he is on drugs. Showing teens and adults that drugs can have negative impacts on one’s life. Some parents may disagree with their child reading this book because Theo’s experience with drugs are very detailed. Contrarily, many lessons can be learned through the novel. Theo went from a child who was dependent on his mother to a lost, lonely boy who’s trying to find his place in a big world. On the way to doing this he made mistakes, but Theo learned from these mistakes. One thing I really enjoyed was that the book was split up into parts. Since it is such a long book, breaking it up in parts makes the book easier to read in a way. Concluding, I do recommend this novel, because it can teach teens and even adult mistakes to learn from. I would recommend for an AP literature class or test, because it actually is an enjoyable book to read with morals hidden inside. In a class setting, though the book may be too

The author of the book I read this week is Stephanie Perry Moore and the title of the book I read is “The Swoop List: Give it up”. The story takes place at Jackson High School. It took place during the school day and after school while the girls attended their afternoon extra circular activities. The author uses sequence as the book goes along. The setting is extremely important to the book because it is where everything happens at in the book. The tone of the story is very down and upset. The theme for the story is to never trust boys and sometimes even your female friends because when things get rough they will not always there for you but instead they will laugh at you.

Prison Boy by Sharon McKay is a very powerful story about unprivileged children living in poverty. In this novel Pax lives in an orphanage where he meets young Kai, and since the day they met Pax was his devoted protector. When the head of the orphanage unexpectedly dies, Pax is forced to work to earn money to help him and Kai survive. In this novel Pax demonstrates courage and protectiveness. This is a deeply moving and emotional story.

The most significant parts of the book were the first and third chapters. Within these chapters, they spoke about the everyday racism experienced by African-Americans. Reading the blatant disrespect and stereotyping displayed within these stories was shocking. I can not fathom the strength and patience it takes to constantly cope with passive aggressive comments about race. Yet, not all the real world experiences in the story had passive aggressive comments and an example of this is the story on page 15. In this story, there are two instances of mistreatment. The first injustice happens when the neighbor calls the police on the young African-American man who is using the phone in front of the house. This is a more obvious racist action because neighbor assumed the African American man was dangerous. The second instance is when the friend tells the man to take his phone calls in the back of the house rather than the front. This is more subtle racism because the young man should be able to make phone calls wherever he pleases. This account is one of the many stories that illustrates the prejudices African Americans face everyday. I have been well aware that race is still a major problem in this country and this book is evidence.

“This book is a four to five month snap shot of life in 1960, it is from the perspective of a nine year old boy so it has that innocent approach. This is story of two families one white and one black, who live half a mile apart going through the same stuff in 1960” said author Gary Brice.

If Wright was to write Black Boy today, he would examine the phenomenon of racial profiling because it is one of the most serious and longstanding issue in today’s society. Many blacks are being targeted for suspicion of crime, and in some cases, murdered by a law enforcement officials because of their race. On August 9, 2014, a white police officer named Darren Wilson shot an unarmed black teenager named Michael Brown multiple times in Ferguson,

This novel is about how they are showing what type of life Malcolm X had and what kind of stuff he had been through while growing up. He had wanted justice being done in the system because of the little crimes he did he had got a cruel punishment for doing it because of his race. The main character in this novel is Malcolm X he was born at Omaha, Nebraska who had moved to Michigan. Malcolm X had definitely change during the story because before he had got locked up he was wild and uncontrollable but once he got locked up and came out he had a lot more wisdom as far as everything he does. The qualities of Malcolm X will benefit me because how he developed knowledge as he gets older and knows what not to do.

I read Black Out by Robinson Wells. In my opinion, the topic of this book is conflict. Throughout the story, the characters Jack, Laura, Aubrey, and Alec face countless examples of conflict and work to resolve them. The Erebus virus, the war on Lambda terrorists, and the teens learning how to use their powers for good. A Lambda is a teenager who has been given powers through the Erebus virus.

The Last Invisible Boy is about a young boy around the age of 12 named Finn who loses his father on a plane on his way back from a trip he takes to visit an old friend, the book is a middle school level read and it talks about most books at this reading level doesn't like what it's like to lose a parent and not know how or why it happen, just that your mom or dad is dead and was on their way home when it happen and being bullied to the point that you don't what to go school . The book is a kids book,but most kids who read this most likely won't understand what if feel like to be bullied unless the school the go to talks about what to do and what not to do when it come to bullying,within the first 40 to 50 pages you see that Finn was a smart and funny kid who after what he calls “The Terrible Day That Changed Everything”, starts to disappear kid from his school start calling him a freak,ghost boy and really rude and cruel things